From: mentalg@geocities.com
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:30:29 -0400 (EDT)

Re: SYNC mode should go

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> > That can be fixed in the X target, although it'd be difficult to do without
> > requiring thread support...
> 
> It's not really difficult, we simply turn on backingstore in X, just
> like the Xlib target does.
> 
> But the only correct solution is for applications that doesn't
> continously update the framebuffer to listen for the ggi_expose_event,
> which we should make the X-targets emit properly.

Okay, good.  ... Except, wouldn't you need to listen for the corresponding X
event in a separate thread?  Maybe not ... I'm not really familiar enough
with X programming to speak with much authority on this particular matter.

-=MenTaLguY=-